Euripides Quotes

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Euripides, a renowned Greek tragic playwright, is one of the three great tragic poets of ancient Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. His life and achievements are not well-documented.

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“No, child, you’re wrong. They’re not the same. Life means hope, death is nothing at all.”

Inspirational Quotes Tragedy Hope Quotes Euripides

Book:The Trojan women

Source: The Trojan women

“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.”

Fate Tragedy Trapped Relentless Greek Tragedy Euripides Agamemnon Inescapable Iphigenia At Aulis Clytemnestra

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“... Misfortunes in the end Grow tired of plaguing; storms in time blow themselves out. So luck will change from man to man; and everything Yields place to something else. Despair is cowardly; The brave man holds fast to confidence and hope.”

Inspiring Drama Tragedy Ancient Greek Akirameruna

Book:Herakles

Source: Herakles

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”

Dream Loss Grief Shadow Tragedy Greek Mourning Bereavement

Author:Euripides

“We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.”

Sacrifice Tragedy Contradictory Greek Tragedy Euripides Iphigenia At Aulis

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?”

Drama Tragedy Ancient Greek Preach

Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“Streams of the sacred rivers flow uphill; Tradition, order, all things are reversed: Deceit is men's device now, Men's oaths are gods' dishonour. Legend will now reverse our reputation; A time comes when the female sex is honoured; That old discordant slander Shall no more hold us subject.”

Drama Tragedy Prophetic Ancient Greek

Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“How strange, that bad soil, if the gods send rain and sun, Bears a rich crop, while good soil, starved of what it needs, Is barren; but man's nature is ingrained - the bad Is never anything but bad, and the good man Is good: misfortune cannot warp his character, His goodness will endure.”

Drama Tragedy Ancient Greek

Book:Hecuba

Source: Hecuba

“The men of old times had little sense;/If you called them fools you wouldn't be far wrong./They invented songs, and all the sweetness of music,/To perform at feasts, banquets, and celebrations;/But no one thought of using/Songs and stringed instruments/To banish the bitterness and pain of life.”

Words Of Wisdom Drama Tragedy Ancient Greek

Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“What the spirit of man can aim at achieving is a dignity which remains when the gods have withdrawn or joined the side of evil, a serene despair which knows that the world contains no higher hope than the human spirit can find within itself.”

Tragedy Introduction Ancient Greek Well Worded

Book:Medea and Other Plays

Source: Medea and Other Plays

“Any pleasure I took in life I now renounce; it’s death I want.”

Tragedy Medea Euripides Greek Plays

Author:Euripides

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

Today Grief Tears Tomorrow Waste Losing Tragedy Yesterday Worried

Author:Euripides

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Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, OrestesRelated source material

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The Complete Greek Tragedies: EuripidesRelated source material

Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, RhesusRelated source material

Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, ElectraRelated source material

Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, IonRelated source material

Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, HippolytusRelated source material

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